Stuck-in-lift video still popular
22 April 2008, 07:54
New York - A time-lapse video of a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours has become something of an Internet sensation, nearly a decade after the event in October 1999.
"After a certain period of time, I knew that I was in pretty big trouble," said Nicholas White, a production manager for Business Week who left his office about 11pm on a Friday for a cigarette break.
Surveillance camera footage of his ordeal in New York's McGraw-Hill building was posted online to accompany an article in the latest edition of The New Yorker. White sued the managers of the midtown skycraper and the elevator maintenance company and won an undisclosed settlement.
The video on the magazine's website had been viewed more than 280 000 times by Monday morning.
White said he understood why the video has captured people's attention: so many have wondered what they would do if it happened to them.
Edited to a soundtrack of classical piano music, the video shows him pacing, trying to climb the walls, lying down, curled up in a foetal position, prying apart the doors. He said he relieved himself down the shaft when the doors were open. - Sapa-AP
"After a certain period of time, I knew that I was in pretty big trouble," said Nicholas White, a production manager for Business Week who left his office about 11pm on a Friday for a cigarette break.
Surveillance camera footage of his ordeal in New York's McGraw-Hill building was posted online to accompany an article in the latest edition of The New Yorker. White sued the managers of the midtown skycraper and the elevator maintenance company and won an undisclosed settlement.
The video on the magazine's website had been viewed more than 280 000 times by Monday morning.
White said he understood why the video has captured people's attention: so many have wondered what they would do if it happened to them.
Edited to a soundtrack of classical piano music, the video shows him pacing, trying to climb the walls, lying down, curled up in a foetal position, prying apart the doors. He said he relieved himself down the shaft when the doors were open. - Sapa-AP
- This article was originally published on page 1 of The Cape Times on April 22, 2008
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